Section 1: What is radioactivity? Nuclear Radiation During radioactive decay‚ the unstable nuclei of these isotopes emit particles‚ or release energy‚ to become stable isotopes‚ as Figure 1 shows. After radioactive decay‚ the element changes into a different isotope of the same element or into an entirely different element. Recall that isotopes of an element are atoms that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei. Different elements are distinguished
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Berry Gordy: The founder of Motown Berry Gordy‚ Jr.‚ was born in Detroit Michigan on November 28‚ 1929. He was the seventh of eight children of Berry‚ Sr. and Bertha Gordy. Berry Gordy‚ Jr. dropped out of the school after his junior year to become a professional boxer; he decided to get out of the fight game at about the time the Army drafted him in 1951. In 1953‚ he married Thelma Coleman and in 1954 his first child was born‚ a daughter Hazel Joy. By 1959 they had two other children‚ named
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Blackberries in June The hardships that Jamie deals with in this story are intense. She tries her best to overcome all the obstacles thrown her way. Jamie deals with working remarkably hard‚ the negativity of her family‚ and trying to understand what’s best for her and Matt by working on their lake house and their future together. Jamie works tremendously hard at a cafe. She plans to take night classes after work‚ so she can work in a dentist office one day. The amount of work she does is more
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“Berries” by Robin Kimmerer is a very detailed and very poetic way of writing. This writing starts with fruit‚ but the more you read the more meaning you find behind the name of these berries. This writing was a well thought out writing that while you read it all of the words start connecting and it starts making sense but at the beginning you feel like you are reading gibberish. This summary is about the true meaning of the word “Berries” and how you would never know how differently you could look
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found in the Nanna’s Frozen Berries that have been imported from China. The first few cases however‚ were initially reported on the 16th of February 2015 at 7:40am. How did this happen? (Causes) There are two possible causes on how the berries got contaminated. One way is that one of the workers in China who was handling the berries did not wash his hands properly‚ which resulted in the contamination of these fruit. Or that the water that is supplied for the berry plants could have been sewage
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ACCT2158 Financial Accounting Business Folio (Team Assignment) INTRODUCTION OF BUSINESS FOLIO The Business Folio consists of two related phases. This scaffolding exercise aims to reach the learning outcome that you will be able to record financial information through both manual accounting information systems and computerised accounting information systems‚ and compare and consolidate your knowledge within both systems. You will be given structured instructions to set up a business‚ create
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HISTORY OF THE DODO BIRD The first documented appearance of the dodo bird is in the early 15th century by Dutch explorers. Dutch vice-admiral Wybrand Van Warwijck used the name “walgyogel” in his journal to describe the bird after his visit to the island of Mauritius in 1598. The origins of word dodo to describe the bird is still unclear‚ but some ascribe it to the Dutch word dodoaars referring to the birds knot of feathers. Even though the Portuguese visited the island first in 1507‚ no records
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environmental factors? For example‚ a chameleon will change colors to hide from predators. Bears hibernate in the winter to conserve energy because of the food shortages. Likewise‚ pill bugs avoid light and try to make homes in dark‚ damp environments and eat decaying plant and animal matter. The reason pill bugs prefer dark and damp environments is because they behave negatively to phototaxis‚ which is the response to light‚ and have a partially positive behavior towards hydrotaxis‚ which is the
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racism is clearly apparent in two short stories “Berry” and “Blackout” and will be discussed and compared. Blackout is the story of an American woman who was waiting at a bus stop when a black man approaches her and asks for a light. She does not have a match so she gives him a light from her cigarette‚ but upon returning it she flicks it away. The man is clearly offended and later a conversation ensues about race and gender. The short story “Berry” is about a black man hired at last minute at
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A BUGS LIFE Marxism is the theory of Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels‚ it’s based on the economical and social system. Marxism emphasizes on the importance of class struggle in society. They thought that economic processes and class struggles laid the groundwork for every important era and movement in history‚ and would lead to the downfall of the upper class and the rise of an egalitarian communist society. Under capitalism‚ the working class or “the people‚” own only their capacity to work;
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